Two Detroit men were arrested by Clinton Township police on Sunday evening after they were caught videotaping a movie at the AMC Star Gratiot 21 on Gratiot Avenue north of 15 Mile Road, according to investigators.

The men, 49 and 48 years old respectively, were nabbed by police after undercover agents employed by the Motion Picture Association of America watched the men set up a camera and tape the movie “Gravity,” according to Clinton Township Detective Capt. Richard Maierle.

Police said the suspects were sitting in the middle of the theater in the top row, Maierle said. They used a baseball cap over a small towel to hide the camera.

“They did several movies before,” said John Coghlan of New York City, an investigator for the MPAA who oversaw the investigation. “Bootlegged movies cost MPAA millions of dollars annually.”

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Maierle said his officers were called to the Star Theater at the Regional Shopping Center at 9:50 p.m. by Coughlan, who was hired by the MPAA to investigate who was video taping the movies.

Maierle said the private investigators were in the theater watching the suspects set up a camera and record the movie. Investigators had been watching the bootleggers for some time.

Coughlan said the MPAA can determine the exact movie theater that was showing the bootlegged films by water marks on the movie.

“It obviously costs the motion picture industry millions of dollars annually,” Maierle said. “It’s illegal and the MPAA wants to prosecute these people at the fullest extent of the law.”